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MINING LAWS IN CHINA.
CRITICISM OF THE NEW PROVISIONS.
The following illuminating letter on the eubject of the new mining laws for China (which it has been announced are to be again revised) appears in the M. Daily News
SIR-Chinese Mining Laws have been promulgated and as the opinion may prevail that a reduction from a ten por cont, to a one and a half
all per vent. "output tax ought to make things easy în general, and be an inducement to invest one's money in mining, be it then Chinese or foreigners, it may be well to clear up the matter once and for all, and prove by actual figures that the Chinese Government by the promulgation of the Mining Laws as they now read, is either grossly ill-advised or if not advised to sure the present Mining Laws certainly would do well more closely to study what they mean compared with other countries.
As it would take too much of your valuable space and me too much of
Iny time, I will but compare the Chinese Lawa with those of her neighbour Japan, and it will be seen at a glance that China
1-Is killing the very best means to get rid of her foreign engagements and
see
2-Is killing every chance to se Chinese, her own people go in for
Bnd,
Effectively closes the door to any foreigners who might have been willing
chances, a
to
tako Though far from clear in its meaning, on ccount of one article contradicting the next, the Laws in China stipulates for a tax on the area of 30 cents per square mow per annum (one square mow being equal to 600 square feet), reduciblo to 35
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vente, as long as prospecting is going INDO-CHINA BRICKS. TILES. PIPES
on, the * prospecting period being two years,
In other words a prospecting area. 2 tax of 15 cents and a “mining area”, tax of 30 cents per square mow. For com- parison's sake we shall take an area of 5,400 square mow the largest area, obtain. able as a concession, which works out, at 600 square feet to a mow, to 3,240,000 square feet, and at 30 square feet to a Japanese taubo, to 90,000 tsubos.
In Japan (including the special war- tax, hot yet withdrawn) the prospecting tax is 30 sen per 1,000 taubos, or a yearly tax of 127, on the area of 90,000 taubos."
The ordinary tax is but 10 gm, the war- tax making the additional 20 sen
_*_ _The_"' mining" tax, also including the var-tax, is 60 son and the tăx amounts, therefore, to I 54. The ordinary tax is but 30 son per 1,000 tsubos per
tax for
In China the prospecting 5,400 square mow: (00,000 teubos) at 16 cents per square mow, works out at $610, against 1.27 in Japan, and the
mming tax at 81,820 against Ts
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HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING, WEAVING & DYEING CO.
THE PROPOSED RECONSTRUCTION. An extraordinary general meeting of
Now we have in addition to provide for a 13 per cent. Output Value tax this Company is called for Monday. on the most of minerals and ores in China-none free. In Japan the output value tax is but one per cent. gold, silver, lead and iron being free of any such taxation.
In Japan there are absolutely no "squeezes to be paid, in China it is an absolute fact that for a lawful fee of Tls. 50, provincial dollars 500 are demanded and have to be paid before the official concerned puts on his chop
April 20th, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing as extra ordinary resolutions the following resolutions, namely:→→
(1)That it is desirable to reconstruct this Company, and accordingly that this Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Charles Bernard Brown of Victoria or in the Colony of Hongkong, Chartered Accountant, be appointed liquidator for the purposes of such winding up,
This happened not two months ago in Anhui province. ⠀⠀
them.
I do not even mention the transit pay (3) That Messrs. Jardine, Matheson ments and 1771 squeezes, which have all & Co., Ltd., the general managers of this to be met, as well as cumshas to gentry Company, be authorised and requested to and supers-on," No end of form and procure to be incorporated s the think I have said onough to prove that China with its crowds of advisers foreign and Chinese (no doubt the Mining Bureau in Peking has a few) and the propensity of its officials for the Grab what you can system, is killing her her with the golden eggs and by doing so is spoiling one of her best chances to get her finances put straight and to get on her legs again,
exencquer.
new Company to be called the angle poe Cotton Mill Limited (of which they shall be appointed by agreement general managere) with the objects (inter alia) of taking over the machinery and plant of this Company, and of carrying on business in or near Shanghai with Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., as general managers so long as they hold not less than 5,000 shares in such new Company, and with a Memorandum and Articles of Association in such form as they shall approve.
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Should the above resolutions be posed by the required majority they will be submitted for confirmation as special resolutions to a second extraordinary general meeting which will be subse quently convened.
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The worst of it is that people will neglect to take proper steps to avoid indigestion. Unfortunately they have a Can be divided up to suit Tenants' require-
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MOUNT KELLETT China is immensely rich in minerals,
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"THE NEUK, Fire-Roomed Bungalow, NO. 68, PEAK, rarely happens, very rarely, and go the
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Partly Furnished, behoves her to fuster her very best re- (3.) That the draft agreement sub-most common sense way to avoid the Ne St, Garden and Tennis
Cheap rent sources instead of taking everything to mitted to this meeting (marked A miseries of indigestion is either to prevent HOMESTEAD," No. 45, PEAS. In til 30th May, 1914
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PEAK, SEVEN ROOMS and Drying Room, will be able to do later on) and leave Company and the liquidator of the one prevention is always easier and better
Furnished, including Electric Fans and nothing for to-morrow just because it part and the Yangtazepoo Cotton Mill, than cure.
Telephone. suits n few officials in Peking to show off Limited, of the other part be approved In any case, either to prevent or to what they pretend to know, but of which and that the liquidator be authorised banish indigestion, you can't do better they very evidently know nothing" the pursuant to Section 185 of the companies than take an occasional dose of Mother framing of mining laws to the best Ordinates 1011 to enter into an agreement Saigel's Syrup, the world-famous herbal advantage of their people and thrporated) in the terms of the said draft has been before the world for over de and their with such new Company (when incor- remedy for stomach and liver trouble. It And finally in Japan foreigners can and to carry the same into effect with years. Each year, each week, in fact, and do hold mining properties of all such (if any) modifications as he with cases are recorded where dyspepties have descriptions without association with the approval of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe found relief by resorting to this fus old N° Japanese, alluvial deposits caly being son dr Co., Ltd., think fit,
family remedy, and now the total of those reserved for Japanese subjects In China (4)That the liquidater be authorised, who, after personal trial, voluntarily and foreigners, under the present laws, are if and when called upon by Messrs embusiastically recommend Mother absolutely debarred from operating mines Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd., so to do. Beigel's Syrup, has run into tens of thou- unless associated with Chinese
to sell the land; and buildings of this sands. Not hundreds- but tens of
thousands! Again in Japan foreigners engaged in Company outright upon such terms as ha mining ventures receive the best of treat with the approval of Messrs. Jardine ment from the Mining Bureau Officials, Mathan & Co. Ltd., thinks for in They would not be likely to write and often better than the Japanese mine the alternative that Mesers Jardine say that Mother Beigel's Syrup was
splendid means of banishing dyspeptie owners do themselves, and this because Matheson & Co. Ltd., be authorised and Japanese Mining Bureau oficiais appre requested to form and procurs to be troubles, headaches, biliousness, flatulence. Nowhou cinte the fact that mining can but be a incorporated a new Company to be called constipation, and pains after eating, if blessing to their country where the the Sukunpoo Real Estate Company, they did not believe what they were saving Chinese thus far do everything to Limited (of which they shall be was the simple truth. Now would they prevent legitimate mining enterprises, apported by agreement general man Take the case of Mrs. M. Kruger, of and evidently look noon mining assagers), with the objects (inter alia) of Steynburg, Cape Province, Writing ou
taking over the said land and buildings, July 22nd, 1913, she says: and of carrying on business with Messrs About eighteen months ago I experi Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., as general enced much discomfort after meals, loss of managers so long as they hold not less energy, and a constant desire for rest. than 5,000 shares in such new Company Through neglecting these first symptoms Cheap rentals
SHOP GODOWN Attached, Nathan. and with a Memorandum and Articles of of indigestion. It condemned mys to Road, Kowloon, Lontoon Marine Lot No. 45,
months of auffering Pains in the back with Whart Association in such form as they shall approve.
(b)Conditionally upon the Sukunpoo and shoulders soon became more stvere WINDSOR LODGE, Kimberley Road Real Estate Co., Ltd, being formed and each day, and I was soldom able to st Kowloon, 6 ROOMS and Tennis Com incorporated as aforesaid, the draft a good night's sleep,
To make matters worse I became agreement submitted to this meeting It was at Ranelagh that, according to a marked B) and expressed to be made subject to almost constant splitting head story related to me by a player whom I between this Company and the liquidator aches, which rendered me quite helpless. nut at Bude, in Cornwall, a well-known of the one part and such new Company I Icet flesh rapidly, and was nervous, actor came by the golfing adventure of his of the other part be approved; and that weak, and irritable. Living was misery, the liquidator be authorised pursuant to Afriond then advised me to use Möther life, says Mr. R. E. Howard in an article Section 185, of the Companies Ordinanes Beigells Syrup, detailing many successful and in the March Tondon. He had eight balls in his bag, and he drove every one of them to enter into an agreement with such cures brought about by this medicine, into the lake in a long serica of efforts to new Company (when incorporated) in the on her advice I procured a bottle. That carry that obstacle. There was nothing terms of the sad draft, and to carry the bottle wrought so great a change upon same into effect with such (if any) my whole system that I was practically more to be done at least, there was just modifications as he with the approval of cured, and another bottle found me in Na Aana ta mianton from Town:
full possession of my former health and For thing. Scizing his quiverful of clubs, Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd strength. I have no hesitation in recom- food View of Harbour. Immediate possession
he took them dramatically to the water's thinks fit edge and with the tremulously spoken-That the liquidator be authorised mending its use as a family medicine For Fall Partiene annly to
Mother Seigel's words, Old pond, have these as well to obtain advance from Messrs Jardine Get your bottle of he threw them into the lake. Then he Matheson & Co Ltd of any moneys Byrap to day. But get the genuine went home
requisite upon such terms as he thinks fit remedy.
Sir
I am not a Javanese, as your readers may be led to believe, and sign myself,
Yours respectfully
FORLION PYRITE.” Shanghai, March 97th.
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